Anna Langston
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Third year English Lit and Creative Writing student living in London!
Aspiring poet, author, journalist, playwright and scribbler. I like messing about with words. My influences are Emily Dickinson, Carol Ann Duffy and Daphne du Maurier.
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London Lamp Posts
You notice stickers pasted on lamposts. Along Brick Lane, their edges peel off, their ink crying from the rain. Their slogans shriek- bold blocks of black that bolster as you slow down for a second, trying to decipher what these people are screaming about. These people, like the ‘genuine locals’ who mutter and murmur and flock to the markets on Sundays to barter for broccoli and walk along the canal in Bethnal Green. These people that pass through on their campaigns, slapping slogans on hard metal as they weave through the city with satchels stuffed with leaflets and keychains. They’re the ones that grab you at the station. ‘Have you got a minute?’ No. Those people that annoy the rest- yet are the ones we’ve all been- those that don’t belong here and yet are gripped by the place, intoxicated by the air, who come with iphones and polaroid cameras, some of them, and snap snippets of graffiti and take arty shots of bridges and that one poster on that one streetlamp that simply reads- HUG A LAMPOST. NOBODY WILL THINK YOU’RE WEIRD. They are the ones supercharged by oat milk lattes and seeded bagels. All of these people notice the colourful collages pasted on ordinary sentinels of streetlamps. They take stock of what it says of the place. They are sticks in the mud that ideas cling onto. A sieve for society.
By Anna Langston 4 years ago in Poets
